Improvement in lamp-burners



R. B. PERKINS.

Lamp-Burner.

No. 202,580. Patentd A pril16,1878.

MPEI'ERS, FHOTQ-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

RUSSELL B. PERKINS, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO E. MILLER 8600., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 202,580, dated April 16,1878; application filed February 18, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUSSELL B. PERKINS, of Meriden, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inLamp-Burners; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, longitudinal section, enlarged; Figs. 2 and 3, detached parts.

This invention relates to an improvement in lamp-burners, andparticularly to that class in which the chimney-rest and deflector arehinged to the body of the burner, so that, without removal of thechimney, the wick may be exposed for trimming or lighting; and theinvention consists in the method of forming the hinge, as more fullyhereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A is the base of the burner, extending 11p and expanding into the bodyB, which is per forated in the usual manner C, the wick-tube; D, thewick-adjuster; E. the deflector; F, the chimney-holder, all ofsubstantially usual form.

To construct the hinge, a lip, a, projects from one side of the body,and is turned down nearly at right angles thereto, and at each end ofthis lip one part, (I, of the knuckle is formed by striking it upward intubular shape, as seen in Fig. 2, leaving a space between the said twoparts. The chimney-rest has acorrespondlng knuckle, 0, formed on itsunder side by striking down from above, as seen in Fig. 3. This knucklee fitting between the two parts (I (l on the body, and the two being settogether,

the wire pintle f is passed through between the knuckles d from belowand through the part 6, thus completing the hinge. The lip to forms arest or stop to support the chimney and deflector when turned away, asseen in broken lines, Fig. 1.

This construction makes the hinge complete without solder, andpossessing all the advantages of a pintle-hinge, in which the pintle isentirely inclosed by bending the metal of the hinged plates around it,and at very much less cost than the independent hinge attached to therespective parts.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a hinged burner inwhich the parts of the hinge are made respectively from the body andchinmey-holder, as such, I am aware, is not new; but in suchconstruction the joints have been made by forming tongues on therespective parts and bending those tongues around the pintle, in whichcase the ends so bent around must either be soldered, or the metal mustbe strong enough to resist the strain upon the hinge tending to open thejoint, this invention differing from such previous constructionessentially in the fact that the knuckles or parts of the joint areformed by striking the metal so as to make loops on the one part toextend between the loops on the other part, and then the pintle passedunder the loops of one part and over the loops of the other completesthe hinge, and without fully inclosin g the pintle.

I claim 1. In a lamp-burner, substantially such as described, the hingeconstructed by knuckles formed by striking up from the body, anintermediate knuckle struck down from the chimney-holder, and a wirepintle through between the said knuckles, substantially as described.

2. In a lamp-burner, substantially such as described, the hingeconstructed by knuckles formed by striking up from the body, anintermediate knuckle struck down from the chimney-holder, and a wirepintle through the said knuckles, and a stop, a, on the body outside thehinge, substantially as described.

RUSSELL B. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

EDWARD MILLER, J r., ELLIS B. BAKER.

